"Who Needs Harvard?"--Time Mag. Cover Story

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<p>Actually, the Krueger-Dale study is based on a cohort of students who went to college back in those days. The long-term follow-up they did, based on their criteria for success, revealed that low-income students were better off going to truly elite colleges than going to fine state flagship universities in their home regions. Advising for students from low-income backgrounds was ineffective all over the place in those days.</p>